scholarly journals A detailed picture of a protein–carbohydrate hydrogen-bonding network revealed by NMR and MD simulations

Glycobiology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustav Nestor ◽  
Alessandro Ruda ◽  
Taigh Anderson ◽  
Stefan Oscarson ◽  
Göran Widmalm ◽  
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Abstract Cyanovirin-N (CV-N) is a cyanobacterial lectin with antiviral activity towards HIV and several other viruses. Here, we identify mannoside hydroxyl protons that are hydrogen bonded to the protein backbone of the CV-N domain B binding site, using NMR spectroscopy. For the two carbohydrate ligands Manα(1→2)ManαOMe and Manα(1→2) Manα(1→6)ManαOMe five hydroxyl protons are involved in hydrogen-bonding networks. Comparison with previous crystallographic results revealed that four of these hydroxyl protons donate hydrogen bonds to protein backbone carbonyl oxygens in solution and in the crystal. Hydrogen bonds were not detected between the side chains of Glu41 and Arg76 with sugar hydroxyls, as previously proposed for CV-N binding of mannosides. Molecular dynamics simulations of the CV-N/Manα(1→2)Manα(1→6)ManαOMe complex confirmed the NMR-determined hydrogen-bonding network. Detailed characterization of CV-N/mannoside complexes provides a better understanding of lectin-carbohydrate interactions and opens up to the use of CV-N and similar lectins as antiviral agents.

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 118-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jutta Erika Helga Köhler ◽  
Nicole Grczelschak-Mick

Four highly ordered hydrogen-bonded models of β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) and its inclusion complex with benzene were investigated by three different theoretical methods: classical quantum mechanics (QM) on AM1 and on the BP/TZVP-DISP3 level of approximation, and thirdly by classical molecular dynamics simulations (MD) at different temperatures (120 K and 273 to 300 K). The hydrogen bonds at the larger O2/O3 rim of empty β-CDs prefer the right-hand orientation, e.g., O3-H…O2-H in the same glucose unit and bifurcated towards …O4 and O3 of the next glucose unit on the right side. On AM1 level the complex energy was −2.75 kcal mol−1 when the benzene molecule was located parallel inside the β-CD cavity and −2.46 kcal mol−1 when it was positioned vertically. The AM1 HOMO/LUMO gap of the empty β-CD with about 12 eV is lowered to about 10 eV in the complex, in agreement with data from the literature. AM1 IR spectra displayed a splitting of the O–H frequencies of cyclodextrin upon complex formation. At the BP/TZVP-DISP3 level the parallel and vertical positions from the starting structures converged to a structure where benzene assumes a more oblique position (−20.16 kcal mol−1 and −20.22 kcal mol−1, resp.) as was reported in the literature. The character of the COSMO-RS σ-surface of β-CD was much more hydrophobic on its O6 rim than on its O2/O3 side when all hydrogen bonds were arranged in a concerted mode. This static QM picture of the β-CD/benzene complex at 0 K was extended by MD simulations. At 120 K benzene was mobile but always stayed inside the cavity of β-CD. The trajectories at 273, 280, 290 and 300 K certainly no longer displayed the highly ordered hydrogen bonds of β-CD and benzene occupied many different positions inside the cavity, before it left the β-CD finally at its O2/O3 side.


2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (12) ◽  
pp. 6690-6697 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aman Jindal ◽  
Sukumaran Vasudevan

Hydrogen bonding OH···O geometries in the liquid state of linear alcohols, derived from ab initio MD simulations, show no change from methanol to pentanol, in contrast to that observed in their crystalline state.


2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (7) ◽  
pp. 668-671 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhi-Hui Zhang ◽  
Jin-Long Wang ◽  
Ning Gao ◽  
Ming-Yang He

The novel title organic salt, 4C5H7N2+·C24H8O84−·8H2O, was obtained from the reaction of perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic acid (H4ptca) with 4-aminopyridine (4-ap). The asymmetric unit contains half a perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylate (ptca4−) anion with twofold symmetry, two 4-aminopyridinium (4-Hap+) cations and four water molecules. Strong N—H...O hydrogen bonds connect each ptca4−anion with four 4-Hap+cations to form a one-dimensional linear chain along the [010] direction, decorated by additional 4-Hap+cations attached by weak N—H...O hydrogen bonds to the ptca4−anions. Intermolecular O—H...O interactions of water molecules with ptca4−and 4-Hap+ions complete the three-dimensional hydrogen-bonding network. From the viewpoint of topology, each ptca4−anion acts as a 16-connected node by hydrogen bonding to six 4-Hap+cations and ten water molecules to yield a highly connected hydrogen-bonding framework. π–π interactions between 4-Hap+cations, and between 4-Hap+cations and ptca4−anions, further stabilize the three-dimensional hydrogen-bonding network.


2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (11) ◽  
pp. 424-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hope T. Sartain ◽  
Richard J. Staples ◽  
Shannon M. Biros

We report here the crystal structure of a ten-coordinate lanthanum(III) metal coordinated by five bidentate ethylenediamine ligands, [La(C2H8N2)5]Cl3·C2H8N2·CH2Cl2. One free ethylenediamine molecule and three Cl−anions are also located in the asymmetric unit. The overall structure is held together by an extensive hydrogen-bonding network between the Cl−anions and the NH groups on the metal-bound ethylenediamine ligands. The free ethylenediamine molecule is held in an ordered position by additional hydrogen bonds involving both the chlorides and –NH groups on the metal-bound ligands. One highly disordered molecule of dichloromethane is located on an inversion center; however, all attempts to model this disorder were unsuccessful. The electron density in this space was removed using the BYPASS procedure [van der Sluis & Spek (1990).Acta Cryst.A46, 194–201].


1993 ◽  
Vol 328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Zaworotko ◽  
S. Subramanian ◽  
L. R. Macgillivray

ABSTRACTCrystal engineering has been invoked to design structural analogues of two prototypal SHG active solids, p-nitroaniline (pNA) and potassium dihydrogenphosphate (KDP). pNA exists as linear polar strands because of head-to-tail hydrogen bonding between adjacent molecules whereas KDP is a self-assembled hydrogen bonded diamondoid network that becomes polar when the hydrogen bonds align. We detail preparation and crystallographic characterization of two classes of multicomponent solid, organic cation hydrogen sulfates and cocrystals of the cubane cluster [M (CO)3(μ3-OH)]4, which structurally mimic pNA and KDP, respectively. Several of the Multi-component solids are polar and they represent a generic approach to designing new polar materials since one component can be changed without altering the basic architecture within the crystal.


2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (11) ◽  
pp. 1586-1589
Author(s):  
Jaroslaw Mazurek ◽  
Ana Fernandez-Casares

Two novel crystal forms of bis(oxonium) ethane-1,2-disulfonate, 2H3O−·C2H4O6S2 2−, are reported. Polymorph II has monoclinic (P21/n) symmetry, while the symmetry of form III is triclinic (P\overline{1}). Both structures display extensive networks of O—H...O hydrogen bonds. While this network in Form II is similar to that observed for the previously reported Form I [Mootz & Wunderlich (1970). Acta Cryst. B26, 1820–1825; Sartori et al. (1994). Z. Naturforsch. 49, 1467–1472] and extends in all directions, in Form III it differs significantly, forming layers parallel to the ab plane. The sulfonate molecule in all three forms adopts a nearly identical geometry. The other observed differences between the forms, apart from the hydrogen-bonding network, are observed in the crystal density and packing index.


Molecules ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 1435
Author(s):  
Amit Kumar ◽  
Alberto Cincotti ◽  
Santiago Aparicio

The properties of trehalose + water mixtures are studied as a function of mixture composition and temperature using molecular dynamics simulations. As trehalose disaccharide has been proposed for dry preservation purposes, the objective of this work is to analyse the nanoscopic properties of the considered mixtures, in terms of aggregation, clustering, interactions energies, and local dynamics, and their relationships with hydrogen bonding. The reported results allow a detailed characterization of hydrogen bonding and its evolution with mixture composition and thus inferring the effects of trehalose on water structuring providing results to justify the mechanisms of trehalose acting as preservation agent.


2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (17) ◽  
pp. 3699-3704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuichiro Watanabe ◽  
Hisahiro Sasabe ◽  
Daisuke Yokoyama ◽  
Teruo Beppu ◽  
Hiroshi Katagiri ◽  
...  

We investigated the synergistic effect of molecular shape anisotropy and intermolecular hydrogen-bonds in the BPy derivatives on molecular orientation towards OLEDs.


2005 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Athanassios K. Boudalis ◽  
Vassilios Nastopoulos ◽  
Catherine P. Raptopoulou ◽  
Aris Terzis ◽  
Spyros P. Perlepes

In order to examine the possibility of using yttrium(III) in the crystal engineering of hydrogenbonded coordination complexes and to compare the molecular and supramolecular YIII/Cl3 or NO3-/DMU chemistry with the already well-developed LnIII/Cl− or NO3−/DMU chemistry (LnIII = lanthanide, DMU = N,N’-dimethylurea), compounds [Y(DMU)6][YCl6] (1) and [Y(NO3)3(DMU)3] (2) have been prepared. The structures of both compounds have been determined by single-crystal Xray diffraction. The structure of 1 consists of octahedral [Y(DMU)6]3+ and [YCl6]3− ions. The YIII ion in 2 is nine-coordinate and ligation is provided by three O-bonded DMU ligands and three bidentate chelating nitrato groups; the coordination polyhedron about the metal can be viewed as a distorted, monocapped square antiprism. The [Y(DMU)6]3+ cations and [YCl6]3− anions self-assemble to form a hydrogen-bonded 3D architecture in 1. Most of the hydrogen-bonding functionalities on the components of 2 create also a 3D network. Two motifs of interionic/intramolecular hydrogen-bonds have been observed: N-H···Cl in 1 and N-H···O(NO3−) in 2. The IR data are discussed in terms of the nature of bonding and the structures of the two complexes


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